Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 4, 1901, Page 6

THE ©OMAHA DALY BEE SWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED KEVERY MORNING THERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION Daily Bee (without stinday), One Year. 880 Duiiy 1 aha ounday, Jne Year v Thustraen e, Wne 1o v Bunany tser, One Vear ve B ULUTGAY B, ONe ¥ on 1w Fweiticun Cent vuswer, One year.. Lw DELIVERED BY CARKIER B,ll- « sinda © Weok. In VY, per L ir i el Iy Lirculation artiment o OFFICES, Omaha: The Bee Building South Omaha: City Ha.l Building, Twe DI ang m pirect Council Biurts: 1o Pearl Str Chicugo New 10 Washing & and edi- Omaha Communicatiof toriui ot rtment TIE ertun Puoasing should be RNy, drait ) Uhe e t stamps #ece Cxpress ubishing pled in paym A ST APPEA Tawelye months ago the republicans of Nebraskn achieved the most bejlliant vietory of the great national eampalgn. With the standard bhearer of the tie and populist combination appeal no ing to local pride and in the fuee of almost insurmountable obstatles, Ne Phrsska was carried for McKinley and I by a decisive majority and the election of two republicans to the | United States senate was assured by the cholee of & republican leglslature. I'his matehloss achievement has given | Nebraska o prestige of inealeulable value not only in the councils of the nation. but in the marts of commerce and centers of industry The confi dence that lad been withdrawn' by the wave of fampant populism was restored and strengthened and a new stimulus w given to investment and enter- prise v Shall ‘Nebraska vetain its position in column or shall it re through indifference tionury sentiment? Shall it join other republican stateés vote of con- tidls in the policies of McKinley, re affivmed by Roosevelt, that bave given the country unparalleled prosperity, or or 1t counts, FCréonal checks, cxcept on OMmiliic ot castern exchanges, Not acceptud e ¢ ecreatit:to t T i S URLRIHING COM sball it be proclaimed recreant:to Iu'- - - faith It embraced only a year ago? BTATEM OF CIRCULATION Whatever the shortcomings of rpp“bv tate of Nebraska, Douglas . ke e s B Raschuck; ssreta licans iu_office may be and whatever Fublisnin Compan being \lul)‘( 'HNO"‘(‘ mistakes may bave been made by “Ip“h. oo S BN Hommi, | lleans bolding offictal positions, the par- t ning »;ml ‘Nunvh\ i o l'r“v‘\':d dur,lu‘[ ty's sincere devotion to the principles o Ml % enunciated at Philadelphia and at Lin- 1 1T 28,300 | coln cannot be truthfully called in ques- 2. 1 n, b g oot g [ The paramount issue to be decided b. a0, 1 by the citizens of Nebraska tomorrow [ 28,620 28,650 | i« the endorsement of the party of prog- i an “:;;:: ress and prosperity by the election of § - j’:::: CENTI e candidates on the republican state W BT | ticket—8. L. Sedgwick for supreme n 28,850 Judge and E. C. Calkins and C. J. Ernst 2 for university regents, - These men have 2 stood th nt of the campalgn, un- 3., assaflable i character and fitness for b0 - - | the positions to which they aspire. - The Total v Less unsold and returned coy abseribed nomy presc me this It's up to the weather man, The anuual battle of the ballots is tdown on the calendar for tomorrow, Those Bulgarian brigands seem also to have been embraced by a wave of prosperity. The Bee had to w tor lack of space. which s se advertising The hest matter Sunday advertisers know paper. the Never mind. Nebraska will step up to the scrateh for the foot ball chaw- plonship next season just as it nothing had happened “Our Dave” will drop his ballot Tues- day into the capacions maw of the Pa- cific ocean. 1t is safer thun the seeret ballot at hom rdictions can sately be made A few for tomortow. The republicans will carry low ud Massachusetts and Vir- ginta will zo demoerati The man who disfranchised himself by peglecting to register will be the one who howls the Joudest that the elec- tion went the wrong way tall liquor dealers bave not endorsed Judge Nedgwick. Hollenbeck Is the candidate that bears their blown-in-the-bottle label. If there is any valid reason why any one who voted to redeem Nebraska and restore it to the republican column last year should vote it back to populism this year, it has not yet been advanced. No, the Nebraska I'red Elsasser is the father of fifteen children, ten of whom are living and photograplied as a campaign advertise- ment. This is a suggestive object les- son for political candidates and political conventlons. Omaha shows up with a 10 per cent increase in the comparative exhibit of bank clearings for the week, notwith- standing the fact that it has one less bank than the week before. Not a bad tribute to prosperity. Omahn will welcome improvements in its street yailway system, but the re- laying of tracks ought not to be allowed to keep its principal business thorough- fare torn up and impassable a moment longer than necessary What is the matter with Alvin Saun- ders, Nebraska's war governor, ward Creighton, builder of the T and Bd-| v fie | Which, if that be possible, may mean side fssues injected intod the canvass by the opposition press wihin the past ten days should in the least in- fluenc voter in sympathy with the purposes and policigs of the republican party. DRASTIC MEASURES IN PHILIPPINES. A Washington dispatch says it is safe to predict that President llmn«-\'o!l. wlll‘ in his unowal message recommend dras- tic measures in the Philippines to sup- | press the murderous outbreaks in some of the semi-civilized Islands. It is said | that the president belleves in action and is fully in accord with the policy of Secretary Root, who favors vigorous action against the insurgents. | General Chaffee, according to reports, is already taking very vigorous action and if what he is doing is not satis- factory to the authoritics at Washing- ton they need not wait for congress to act In the matter. T president now has full power to direct what sball be done in the Philippines, the last con- | gress having given him absolute au- thority to put into effect whatever poli- cies he should deem necessary for the suppression of the Insurrection and the establishment of c¢ivil government in the archipelago. As commander-in-chief of the army the president can order any military operations in the Phillppines which he thinks the circumstances re- quire. It more soldlers are thought to be needed there they can be sent with- out additional authority from congress aud whatever nggressive measures are deemed to be called for can be adopted without waiting for any action on the part of the legislative branch of the government. In a word, there is no restriction whatever upon the president in this particular and congress could in nowise Increase his power of dealing, in u military way, with the Phillppine insurrection. General Chaffee, theve is no doubt, cun be depended upon to fully and falthfully exercise all the authority con- ferred upon him from Washington and this he seems to be doing intelligently and effectively. Recent reports showed good results from. the vigorous opera- tions in the islund of Samar, one im- portant effect being té cause the sur- render of a considerable force of in- surgents in Cebu, where a more or less serious disturbance had prevalled. Op- erations elsewhere, according to the latest iuformation, are being energet- ically pushed and the proposed act of the Philippine commission for the pun- ishment of treason and sedition is rea- sonably expected to be helpful to the work of pacification, which is undoubt- edly making progress, though less rap- idly, perbaps, than has been hoped for, INTERNATIONAL TRADE DEADLOCK. A peculiur conditlon is noted in the national trade, the continuance of telegraph, philanthropist and public | # Very material falling off of our - benefuctor, for Nebraska's two repre- | merce with Europe during the remain- sentatives in the Louisiana Purchase | der of the year. A New York dispatch Hall of Fame? How can the Commerctal and retain the support of the pi headquarters used on campaign rilars Thé county commissior ub expect to prowote harmony among all classes o8 | aln and Europe was to a when its club rooms arc made political | extent stagnating comm ships to be of a few days age stated that the most glgantic deadlock ever established be- tween the producers o the United States and the consuwiers of Great Brit- onsiderable and puts or democratic candidates | ting elphers in the statistics that rep- and its secretary allows his name to be resent exports where heretofore have been figures representing millions. A great number of steamships and salling vessels ave laid up at eastern filled at the impending election are| ,pis, unable to obtain cargoes, a con- among the most important of all to the | gjgjon of affairs that has not before taxpayers, The people who pay the | poen expert I for years and one taxes should see o it that the county | which naturally causes some uneusi- board is rescued from wastefulness and | poss though possibly it will be only profligacy with the public funds. temporary. The explanation is in the Under the Taws of Nebrasku voters | fict that Europe s not buying our crops who have falled to vegister muy sweay | JUSt BOW. hecause her cousumers are thelr votes 1n by applying to the city [ O the oplnfon tht the: prices are too elerk tor u- cortificate, 1o which any | MEh and believe that it thes uce a elector is entitlad who can make ogth | Mttle sullen and indifferent they will that he was prevented from register. [ SCUre concessio Jeie Bls0 Bald. 1o ing by absen ness. > from the city or by sick T prevails in the police court by which money that should go into the school fund i diverted with a vote of 10 a perpetual tenwre of office, [ o system of disappearing tines that into the pockets of | 1¢ Judge Gordon's law partner should mieet | for it is pointed out that ded disapproval by the rejection of Judge Gordon's claim be true that upon this side of the ocvan there is for the time beiug the utmost indifference on the part of those whe own American wheat and cotton to this )| European und English purpose, ¥ 11 the first time in many years the Ame THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MO NOVEMBER s that they o wheat and cotton at they demand reat Britain abl the that sy N the prices which Europe and they will not prives now 1t is improbable i more than a t Lurope must that this mporary condition. have our wheat awd our cotton, whatever the sked for it becanse th s nowh to obtain mmoditles, ' es Wy cotton. however Astuffs may secnred else but even as to this the chief dependence at present is upon the United States, Meanwhile the lack of | exportation has cavsed a scareity of ex change and an outflow of gold, though not to an extent to cavse any ansiety, | k about three mil New York to Durfug the past we lions in gold went from Europe and probably more will be shipped this week, but of course such n outgo Las no effoct whate upon the money market, so great is the stock of gold now In this country and it is steadi sing. As to the trade deadlock © 18 no reason to beliey that it will be long itinued, rope may not now be disposed to Amer- fean prices for wheat and cotton, but she will be compelled to s take those commoditics at think they are worth, — NOTHING TO BRAG OF. County Treasurer Elsasger points with pride to the fact that he has made public the condition of the county finances, He also tries to make believe that he has not been able to turn in any interest on these funds because the de- pository law fixes the minimum rate of interest at 3 per cent, while the Omaha banks pay only 2 per cent. This excuse is very flimsy. Every- body knows that the lawmakers' design wag to stop the farming out of public funds for private gain. At the time the law was pussed 3 per cent was the low- est rate of Interest, but no court would punish a treasurer for turning in 2 per cent on the deposits fnstead of putting hundreds, of thousands of dollars of county mouey on deposit without inter- est, The truth of the matter is that banks are not ungrateful; they have a way of returning favors that they enjoy at the expense of the taxpayers. roor later what we WHERI S BLIS 1GNORAN 3 The circular issued by a coterie of the Commercial club in behalf of the dem cratic school board ticket starts out as follows: You have doubtless noticed that in the recent republican convention three men who had recelved the vote of their own ward as candidates for the Board of Edu- cation were rejected and men nominated— some of whom had not even been men- tioned for the position. The three thus defeated were Dr. Swoboda in the Second, Mr. George T. Nicholson in the Fourth and Mr. W. H. Butts in the First. Such action of course, means something, and no one h any doubt as to its meaning. It is simply a fresh fllustration of the power of a few men to defeat the will of the party v the interest of their own plans. This condl- tion of things is in itself offensive and dan- gerous. With all due deference to the patriots who bave hoisted the danger signal over the school houses of Omaha, we deem it proper to remind those gentle- men that they know a great deal more about the jobbing business and life in- surance than they do about party usage and convention methods. The recent republican convention was made up of representatives from the nine wards of the city and the business of the convention was the nomination of five members of the Board of uea- tion. With the exception of the Third ward, each ward presented a candidate | of its own, so that at least three out of the eight candidates presented had to be turned down. Mr. W. H. Butts was not seriously proposed, the First ward being rep- resented in the school board by two holdovers, Messis, Barnard and Stub- bendorf. To nominate a third candidate from that ward would bave been un- reasonable and au injustice to the other wards. Dr. Swoboda was turned down be- cause he had two years ago deserted the republican party and allowed himself to be nominated on the demo-pop ticket for coroner against Mr. Swanson, the republican nominée. To "have placed Dr. Swoboda on the ticket at this time would bave been to place a premium upon political disloyalty. Mr. Nicholson, from the Fourth ward, was rejected becnuse he had sought the nomination in the interest of Superin- tendent Pearse, who has done more to lower the standard of our public schools through favoritism and politicul intrigue than any other man that has ever held the position. The action of the convention, of course, weans something. It means that the republican party is not dis- posed to place a premium upon treach- ery and desertion, It means that ma- Jorities rule In conventions just as they do at elections. But wherein was the action of the convention subversive to good govern- | ment? Was it possible for that body to have nominated eight candidates when the e but five places on the ticket? What constitutes the offense of the con- vention in the eyes of the danger signal men? Is it that it has placed in nom ination wen pledged to do away with nepotism, favoritism ckless Waste of money in the management of il schools? The republican fandidates pledged to pursue business methods. Ought any business man, who is not hypnotized by Pearse, to stand up for the perpetuation of the methods that have been pursued In the selection and promotion of teachers? If the men who stand behind M. Pearse had the manhood to stand up and make Pearsism the Instend of trying to pose us saviors of the pub- lie schools their appeal to ublicans to vote the democratic school board ticket would be entitled to g ' re- spect. Issue column The Bee reproduces the sample ballot that In anothe n farmer can afford to be stubborn, the farme in the west, and 1o a4 great extent in the south, have accumulated so wmuch from the prosperity of the last few used at the election Tuesday fn conformity to the new Nebraska ballot law. Our state has changed the form of the ofticial ballot so0 often that the voters have scarcely become ac have heen voter than they called on to try another. B should study the new ballot mand familiarize himself with it He will vote the mote intelligently if he cuts this form ont of the paper and marks it according to hig choice, to be taken with him into the voting booth for reference in making up the official bal lot A moment devoted to this pre eantion may the loss of a vote through fusion over the novelty of the new ballot save Mr. Bombastus Sunborn feels his oats beeause he was re-elected president of the auditorium. Instead of enltivating the good will of 4l classes who are ex- pected to contribute to the enterprise he projects himself into the middle of the school board fight enginecered from behind the screen of the Commercial club by Superintendent Pearse. This only emphasizes the fact that My Pearse s a smooth politiclan who has not wedged himself into the exeeutive committee of Commercial club and directory of the auditorium for his health, But neither the interests of the Commerciul club nor of the auditorium can be promoted by championing the subgidized representative of the school book trust. The Commercial club coteric which entered the courts to prevent the inves- tigation and trial of former Chief Re- dell on charges of brutality toward his men and conduct unbecoming an officer s now trying to foist C. G. Pearse upon the pay roll for another term of three 600 a year. These self-con- stituted guardians of the city of Omaha have fssucd an appeal from republicans (%) to republicans in favor of four mem- bers of the democratic school board ticket. We make bold to assert that not more than five out of the thirty self- constituted republicuns whose names were appended to the circular have voted a straight spublican ticket within the last tive s There is an adage that politics is bus- iness and business Is politics. But some business men never will learn politics and In the hands of smooth politiclans are most easily duped. This fact is strikingly illustrated by the action of busginess men who bave allowed them- selves to be roped in as champlons of the shrewdest politiclan who has ever been conunected with public affairs in Omaha, Let the Funeral Pa New York World. When Senator Jones of Nevada admits that the silver issue is dead there Is no fear of burying it alive. A Novelty in Ouba. Philadelphia Ledger. Havana does not claim to have an ideal city government; nevertheless, that city's $10,000,000 street contract went to the low- est bidder. Smilingly Greeting Fate, ‘Washington Post. The democratic nominee for governor of Towa admits that there is a strong po bility of his defeat. There are times when a man has nothing to lose by being frank in politics Don't e Too Sure. Kansas City Star, The authorities in the Philippines should have thought twice before announcing that Samar would be cleared by Christmas. The British promised to take dinner in Pre- torfa on Christmas day, 1898, it will be re- membered. use of Authority. Minneapolis Journal, There ought to be some way to deprive a clergyman of his authority to perform the marriage ceremony when he makes such misuse of it as did the New York minister who married a boy in knfcker- bockers to a girl still in short dresses. A Dried-Up Insue. Philadelphia Record. Sepator Jones of Nevada has again re- turned to the bosom of his first love. He fihds bimetallism to be a drled-up issue. Not even Mr. Bryan was a stouter defender of free silver coinage than the senator from Nevada, nor was he so early in the fleld. Now that Jones has oscillated back to re- publicanism, and nearly all the silver- throated shouters have relapsed Into lence, and now that the populist party has gone glimmering, why should the great Nebraskan still wander in argentiferous solitudes? — Autumn's Arbor J. Sterling Morton's Conservative. There ought to be an autumnal, there is a vernal, Arbor day. The people of Ne- braska ought to insist upon planting a row of black walnuts or catalpas on each sec- tion line in this state running east and west. Such rows, one mile apart, north and south, stretched from the Missour river to the foothills of the Rocky moun- tains, would mitigate the rigors of winter and abolish the drouths of summer. An autumnal Arbor day should be celebrated in 1901—for the purpose of beginning this great and beautiful betterment of our cli- matic conditions. —— ERSONAL NOTES. Secretary Cortelyou has come inte pos- sesslon of the late President McKinley's chair. Henry Watterson and Senator Hanna have accepted Invitations to speak at the twenty- fifth anniversary banquet of the Boston Merchants' association. 4 The sultan of Turkey is extremely fond of his children, for whom he has a tiny theater, wherein they play small parts for his majesty's delectation Like his grandfather, Emperor Willlam is a soldier, even when he goes to bed, for he sleeps on a regulation camp bed, such as his officers use. The bed clothing is of the rough regimental pattern. He retires at 11 p. m. and Is up and dressed soon after 5am The police board of Jersey City has issued an order that ofcers in the department must get down to something like welght for helght. olicemen are consequently hard at work day and night in the new de- partment gymnasiums and all are doing thelr best to reach athletic proportions. A monument to the memory of the late Richard P. Bland will be erected in Leb- anon, Mo, by the citizens of that place. 1t will consist of a base of “‘white bronze,” surrounded by a frieze made as it from ellver dollars. The base will be surmounted by @ litesize figure of Mr. Bland in the samo white composition Willlam Lloyd Garrison has accepted an invitation extended to him by the com- mittee in charge of the reception to ths Irish delegates, Messrs. John Redmond M. P P A McHugh, M. P, and Thomas O'Donnell, M. P., to preside at the demon- stration in support of the Irish national cause to be held at Mechanies’ building, Boston, on Sunday eveaing, November 10, on well ascertained tendencies of human | 2 s action | Giving Away His Case Gov . (e, Mieat sariolas: 0" WY 8 ;i\"'ll‘lnl“' was made by the treasury Is {that of Mre. Pauline Muellor of Indian | b Wil ahiadion apolis. She has had little falth in banks William J. Bryan, in bie endeavor to fre correct concluston that republican su- the demo-pop heart In Nebraska, is saying some things which had better, for his in tereste, have heen left unsaid. Thus, in a xxm‘mh made a few days ago In that state he remarked: T hate to believe that men will recant their beliefs bocause their ma terial interests are advanced by voting con trary to their principles. 1 hate to think that a farmer who believes in silver, in in- dependence in government and is against imperialism, will vote the republicau ticket because bogs are up and wheat fs high In this sort of talk Mr. Bryan goes far toward glving away his case. A policy which advances the material interests of A community, especially when that commun- ity means a nation of 76,000,000 inhabitants, must necessarily be wise. In talking this way to farmers that statesman incites them to ask themselves the reason why “hogs are up and wheat is high" This will be fatal to Mr. Bryan's whole theory, When the farmer gets to thinking of the reason why the things which he has to sell are higher than they were a few years ago, and why his general condition has been greatly im proved in the interval, he will quickly reach d when she went out to market one da macy {s accountable for much, VeI¥ | gha yid her savin a voll of bills amount much, of this fmprovement ing to $179, in the false hottom of & Rax Mr. Bryan i« an eloguent man, but he {500 While she was away her child cannot make anything, in a political way, | eoiine ol ighted the gas, and when out of this prosperity argument. He sald | gpy roqurned only a fow charred romains In one of his recent speeches that “the | ayq o strange odor remained from her prosperity argument defeated us last year, [y She mourned her loss for thres and when one admits that a man who hae | youpg and every German in Indfanapelic professed belief in our principles votes the | yyow of hor misfortune. Finally a friend to whom she showed the sent them to ex-Congressman W. Tn By num of this city: he took them to the | bureau of redemption, where by its won derful system of identification the money harred remain he puts material interests above the welfars his country—prosperity above principle.” There is dynamite for the democratic leader in this sort of stump speaking. He ought to leave the prosperity talk to the | \ republican ticket, you have to admit that | | | \ was recognized and the tregsury has lssyed republicans, who alane are in a position 10 | paw bills for the greater gart of the ones profit by it. Mr. Bryan concedes, what | gegiroved. There is rejolcing in the Muel everybody knows to be true, that the con= | jor household dition of the country hae been wondertully improved since the republican party came into power. There {s something more than a coincidence in this conjunction. The in- telligent men among the eloquent Nebrase Kan's hearers will be apt to see that the yepublican sway and the national prosperity bear, the one to the other, the relation of cause to effect FT IN THE LURCH America Losing and Germany Seenre ing the Teade of Cubn Philadelphfa Press According to offictal statistics, our trade with Cuba is falling off at a rate that will cause surprise, and certainly should awaken POLITICAL COMMENT IN TH STATE, Pender Republic: keep this high tribunal above partisanship by having all parties represented on said opponent is a vote to make the supreme court a partisan body, as all judges will bo fustontsts, it the latter should be suc- cesstul. Voto to keep this tribunal non- partisan Norfolk News: The average fusion editor of Nebraska is not following the World- Herald's lead as friskily as {n years past. | that paper had the implicit confidence, not only of the fusion editors, but of its read- ers, but it has so frequently been detected at fakery and error that its consclentious followers and worshipers are about as scarce as fiies in midwinter. of carrylng the state this fall. riding for a fall and all licans but do their duty. It won't do to ing to play trumps at the right time. And | we need not “lead from a sneak" either, for we hold the long suit and the trumps. | In other words, we win the victory if we voting the ticket. Ohlowa Ohjewan: There may have been some excuse for the existence of populism when the party was first organized, but it is difficult to discern a valid reason now why the organization should continue to re- celve the support of men who are really and truly in favor of securing the best legal enactments and the most upright officlals to administer and interpret them. 1t populism meant anything it meant a re- buke to the republican party and the demo- cratic party for tolerating machine politics and occasionally electing a dishonest man to office. Who can deny that the populist Is not now as much addicted to ring rule as ever the republicans and democrats were or that about the same percentage of public men go wrong in all parties? It would be a dificult matter for an honest populist to assign one valld excuse for the existence of his party. Beatrice Express: are sinfully indifferent as to the result of the electlon this year. Republicans have been heard to say that it fs an off year and it doesn’t make much difference which side wins. Such indifference Is the besetting sin of the supporters of the g o. p. They are apt to take too much for granted and assume that their friends will take care of the ticket. There is o much at stake this year, off year as it 1, that the fuslose ists are making frantic efforts to win. Thelr high priest is touring the state, try- ing to kindle mew fires of enthusiasm In the bosoms of the pops and democrats. A victory for the fusionists this week will encourage thcm and help them to organize for the battle next year; a defeat will de- moralize and discourage them and they ought to be demoralized and discouraged. Vote the republican ticket Tuesday. Blair Pilot: If republicans were ever called upon to vote and if it was ever their duty to do so, it Is this year, and the full voting strength of the party in the county should go to the polls tomorrow and vote the ticket of progress and prosperity. You cwe it to the national administration and fo the state administration; both have earned your endorsement. You cannot af- ford to be a stay-at-home this year. Take @ few hours off and vote. See that your neighbor does the same thing. One stay- home in each precinct means 1,600 votes lost in the state. Don't take the chance. Look at the table of prices as recently published. Notice the upward trend of prices on farm products and decide for yourself that you can afford to go to the polls and vote for the men who represent the party that by its economic and busi- neeslike methods has brought to the coun- try unprecedented prosperity and made mil- lions of men and families happy. Friend Telegraph: We believe that Tues- day's election will yet show Nebraska in the republican column. The nominations for judge of the supreme court and regents of the university have been wise ones and they are pledged to the common voter all over the state that the affairs will be run ably and economically from first to last. When Nebraska went back into the repub- llean column a year ago her populace showed that she was tired of fusion rule and the condltions that were incident to longer barloting with the pet notlons of the fusion platform. As a resutt of the result of the election a year ago every man and woman who desired work has been supplied with employment and no one who desired to work has sought a job many days. Farm land has enhanced in value to the extent of from $5 to $10 per acre. Farmers are the principal depositors in our local banks and they have swept thelr mortgages off the records of every county within the state with a rapldity that has never before been known in this or any other country. The tarmer has® had implicit credit with moneyed men and from the man who was selling corn In 1806 at 8 cents per bushel he has become the lord of Nebraska at this time. Had Nebraska been raked with @ fine-toothed comb no hetter material could have been secured for the supreme court than Judge Sedgwick of York and the candidates for regents of the university are all men who have the implicit confi- dence of those who know them best. It .should be (he watchword of every voter in the state as he goes to the polls oo Tues. day to lend his iofluence toward carrying out @ continuance of the times which he now ¢njoys and to keep Nebraska in the republican column. Adhering to Boston Transcript, President Roosevelt will respect preces dent to the extent of having & Rhode Island turkey on his Thanksglving dinoer table; but his personal preference would Le to take his gun into the weods and bring down a wild one, as our great granddaddies used to do, A vote for Judge S. H. [ Sedgwick for supreme judge is a vote to | court, but on the other hand a vote for his | and as blindly | There was a time when | Grand Island Independent: Every rv-puh-‘ goniane¢ on account of the red-hot Schley lican should be alive to the importance | story he told on the stand. Fusion is | do what they want with me the hurrying of | W the spellbinders will not avail if repub- | to Admiral Schley and Captain Cook be overconfident and lose the game by fail- ' &t the glory. but do our duty by going to the polls and | life that he gets a chance to distinguish There are voters who | Inquiry as to the cause of the decline, We BITS OF WASH 'ON LIFE. have assurances from Geueral Leonard | ’:;'nod‘ |am|| !rn;‘m other American ofMicials in - ¢ fsland that the materinl conditions hings of People and Events &t the | 010 gro. rapidly and steadlly improving National Capital. The people are showing remarkable recu Boatswain Bill Hill, who told the court | Perative powers, and are restoring the of inquiry and the country a stirring story WASte places desolated by tho war with of the battle the Brooklyn fought on the | ¥Pain with wonderful success. They have soiith coast of Cuba, has returned to his | {Urned hopetully to tho repair of their [ Goty. bun vacation having expired on tho | Proken fortuncs with u degree of Industry. | 18t nst. While in Washington after giv- "‘r"" and thrift evincing manly energy and |ing his testtmony, he hung around the | idomitable courage. They have replanted e ting to every withess and | their flelds, rebullt thelr houses and re T Hrtondn whothee. the. truo story | PeRed the avenues of trade unused since | the outbreak of the revolution six vears BT L s MM Y ago. What s more, tho government and was ready to swear it was true, bu people of the United States have lent aid was agunst his old commander the big y [ in & thousand ways to better the condition sailor could not find words savage enough | o¢ the Cuban population. finstituting %o expross his contempt for the detractor. | gohools, opening roads, building bridges | “I don't care where they send me.” ho | cleaning the towns, extending markets, se sald to a correspondent of the Chicako | curing safety of life and property, main Post, who jokingly told him the powers that | taining order and encouraging investments be meant to detail him to chage the Pata- | of new capital. With these choering and grauifylng gains made abundantly manifest in all parts of the ieland, our commerc with the people should assuredly show cor- responding development. 8o far from thix belng the case, however, our trade fs com paratively decreasing. S0 near are wo to Cuba and so elose are all our relations with its people that we take it for granted us a matter of course they will deal with ue rather than with others, and if the volume of transactions between us grows less it is because thev are buylng less and selling less than thev have bought and eold heretofore. This is commanders seem to be afraid to mention |8 mistaken assumption. The Cubans, like the men under them for fear they will lose | 8!l prospering people, are importing and some of the credit themselves. That isn't | ©XPorting more than heretofore. but they the way with Schley and Cook. They re- |re Eolng elsewhere to find their market member their men, and you bet the men |A8d to supply thelr wante. The trade we are grateful.” are losing the Germans are gaining. Whilo Hill wears a medal of honor for bravery | ©UF business to and fro has decreased about shown In restuing a man from drowning, | °0¢-third, that of the Germans has in- creased nearly fourfold. The commerce that we think by right belongs to us, so to speak, I8 being taken away from us and transferred 4,000 miles ncross the ocean We may as well look the situation in the face and try to understand what il means On the face of affairs It probably means that the German salesman has heen uble to get the better of his Yankee rival. The German ‘“‘drummer” has been thoroughly trained in his calling. He has gone o Cuba from South American countries, where he has learned perfectly the Spanish languagn and the ways, manners and customs of th Spanish-American people. e cultivate Intimacies with the Cubais, Tearns exactly what they want and advises his people at home what will suit them. On our vart we have a salesmen who can speal Spanish, and not a school in the country where a commercial man could learn the language if he wanted to. We have been left behind because we deserve fo be left for not trying to keep up with the proces “They can TN tell you y the men on Brooklyn are so devoted s gave every man a fair show They did not try to keep all the credit for themselves. Why, the ad- miral gave me a paragraph in his report to the department, and Captain Cook men. tioned me, too. It's only once in a man's because th himself in the navy, and when he does his duty he likes to be recognized. Some Secretary Hay has a new coachman. He |15 a recent importation and possesses great | contempt for the eighth letter of the alpha- bet. The other night he drove the premier to the White House. As the weather was a trifle chilly the coachman joined some ot Lis guild at a tavern near the White House grounds, where he became slightly befud- {dled on ‘alf and ‘alf and kindred liquors. | Mr. Hay, us everyone knows, lives on H street, opposite Lafayette square. Lack of | acquaintance with the neighborhood, com- biged with the convivialities of the evening, conspired to make the coachman mistaks tho route. Driving up to a large house on 1 street he pulled his horses to a standstill and announced in his cheery Britlsh way: “’Ome, sir.”" The secretary at once divined the mistake and also the condition cf his man, whom he began mildly to take te task. “You are on T street,”" he explained, “a block away from home. You crossed H street without knowing it, and you are n- | #10% toxicated.” p? Y " A great and knowing light came into the RERESY OHAYE coachman’s eyes as he exclaimed in tri- | wyopincion Star el e aia umph: “Pardon, sir! Pardon: but now hit's hall clear, sir, 'ow the deplorable mistake oc- curred, sir. Hi ham an Englishman, sir, as you are doubtless aware, sir, so that hit's perfectly natural for me to drop my H's, sir, "nele Eben, ‘“‘you kin figger it out d man 1s 8o willin’ to give uway advi it ain’t been no good to him Detroit office 1 as hot as Lawyer—1t ought t here. t riend—Jove, your Chicago Tribune: “I wouldn't say ‘easy as A B C. if | were in your place, I think, sald the professor “Can anything be easier than A B O asked the doctor, firing up. " rejoined the The forthcoming report of the Interstate Commerce commission will make & com- parison of rallroad accidents under existing conditions and the record of the last year prior to the adoption of safety appliances. The passage of that law was bitterly fought by tho roads, the officers of which claimed that its enactment and enforcement would cost them miHlons of dollars in equipping their cars with the patent devices. The law was finally pushed through and the forth- coming report will show that it has resulted in saving the lives and limbs of a great many employes, however much it may have cost the rallroads in treasure, The follow- ing statement of the returns from one of the largest rallroads in the country furnishesn | Boston fair sumple of the general conditions. On | You und 1’ thin road twenty-one men were killed in | ity professor, Chicago Post: “What has this naval court of inquiry proved?" SOt has proved that there mighty small and picayunish ntry.'’ are ol men - in naval service of this ¢ Cleveland Plain Dealor: that Ear] Rus: can visit this ountry without hindrance, in spite of his doubtiul Dakota 1t would be so shocking, you " to establish a_precedent that might bur oat a large proportion of New York's ultra fashionables.” Transeript: Edith—T hear’ that 1 are quite intercsted in-one Bertha—Don't you tell a soul, Edith, hut 1893 and 7 men were Injured. These fig- ally 1 believe Fred and 1 were made for ures include only the men killed and tnjured | Fheh, e, W N DU B0 AT while engaged in the operation of coupling [ —-except two or three times when ¥ was and uncoupling cars. The total number of [ cleurly in the wrong men engaged in that work on the road In | ppiiaeiphia Press: WL question during 1893 was 9, In the year | man, lend me hundred, will' you 3 Just closed there were 13,197 men doing the | Turvy—What! Why, you musi luive ioxt same kind of work for this road. There | YN\ SUXT0 Gy o them. Tve stll got were but nine fatal accident to the couplers and only 167 accidents. From this state- ment it will be seen that while in 1893 one man was killed for every 472 engaged in the operation of coupling cars, and one injured for every eight that were employed, last year only one was killed in every 1,466 and the sense of touch ee. Chicago Post: whe was led 1ot st " remarked the girl in bl repeated the glel In gray. L 1 guess you didn’t see her, She dlin't ha to be led. When she d down 1} alsle you couldn’t have headed her oft wiih W reutment of cavalry." one injured fq ver. venty-nine em- SE———————————— ployeuj ST IORTIAN 4 ., A-TRYIN' " SIGN BOARDS, A Washington letter to the Minncapolis Roy Farrell Greene in Suceess “My boy.” sald Uncle Hiram, “you'll soon Journal predicts a lobby scandal ax well as bhe starting out a hot fight over isthmian canal legislation drive o'er 1 w long roandway, and oft in congress during the winter. “‘Some hill,” % bit of doubt says the writer. “is pretty lkely (o be | Will puzzle you complotely, s 10 which passed, but hefore it is decided to chose the | o ik Wisw, when roads fork out Nicaragua or Panama route a lot of con- us they're inclined to do. gressmen will be ‘influenced.’ Collis P. | Each bears the equal marks of well-worn t , Mike ag not, And o, one's undecidéd which he'd bett was choose 1o trot; But 1 have learned the route ihus mach PNl confess Keep a-tryin' ' signboards mark the nighway to Success Huntington, who, by the way, used to tuke a lvely interest in canal legislation, wont to say that it had cost him $25,000,000 to teach congress its duty. There are suc- cessors to the late Pacific railroad magnate who are quite as intent on teaching con- gress what it ought to do. It would take a Philadelphia lawyer (o untangle the net- work of conflicting inferests mixed up in this canal business. Monsieur Hutin repre- sents French interests, which amount to millions, With the Panama people it is all ne my boy, and “Buceess 18 such town==to reach 1t all men strive You'll find the crowd. though, growing les the farther on you drive- many, secking shorter cuts Dilly-dally Lane. Get so far oft the highway that they find it ain ' pretty Yor throush You'll be allured, on you go, by linger or nothing. Then there are the Maritime Posts Lht sy ¢ company, the Gragin Ayre syndicate and a “Take 1'l|.|m| “" u‘;l past Waltingville, t 1o betior Wiy dozen other cliques, all with ftching palma. [ o (1 Hie DESEWARL Lo g fain upon There will be something doing in the lobby your mind inipress lige.” The “Keep a-tryin' © signboards mark fhia highway to Biceess, Just as regularly as the season for start- ing fires comes around, there arrive at the treasury packages of remnants of burnt bills for redemption, For some unaccount- able reason the house stove seems to be “The road that runs through Waltingville ha prospects bright and fair, When lirst_you start, but, farther on, it leads through swamps'of Care. And, after that, you'll have to climb the wenry hill of Del Then, still beyond, there looms in view the the favorite place for hidiog money, per- | "M TR E0F Rigrer. © '™ 0 view t) haps because its metallic character sug- | And &6, my boy, when starting on the rou Ate, alone i Uncle Hiram chose 1 trist ake yvour own, heed his plain directions, if quite avold distress Sohivge The "Keep a-tryin' ' signboards mark highway (0 Baccess. M gests a safe, or it may be because bur- glars would credit thelr victims with too much sense to keep movey in a stove, and s0 would not look there. But whatever the reason, the phrase, “money to burp,” res And you'd